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NDA Wins Bihar Landslide as ECI Confirms Final Tally

Analysts credit women-focused welfare plus an expanded caste coalition.

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BJP supporters celebrate NDA's victory in the Bihar Assembly elections, at the BJP Headquarters, in New Delhi.
Ever since Prashant Kishor launched his party last year, it was expected that he would contest the Bihar polls, likely from Raghopur, INDIA bloc's chief ministerial face Tejashwi Yadav's home turf.

Overview

  • Election Commission results show BJP 89, JD(U) 85 and LJP(RV) 19, taking the NDA to 202 of 243 seats, with RJD at 25 and Congress at 6.
  • BJP finishes as the single largest party, while smaller NDA partners post strong strike rates across their limited contests.
  • The outcome positions Nitish Kumar to continue as chief minister, with coalition leaders framing the verdict as an endorsement of governance and delivery.
  • Women’s turnout and schemes such as the ₹10,000 Mahila Rozgar payouts are widely cited as pivotal to the ruling alliance’s gains.
  • Opposition figures allege unfair voter-roll revisions under the Special Intensive Revision and say they will review the result, even as the ECI certified the final count.